New York Manhattan also called the Big Apple; from the top of the Empire State Building an impregnable and grandiose view over Manhattan. Other districts very different from each other: Bronx, Brooklyn, Central Park, Soho, Times Square...
In this series there are always some people in the foreground, in the icy wind of Brooklyn Bridge, or on a crossroad, a seller of roasted nuts at the foot of Rockefeller Center, a police officer doing traffic, New Yorkers pedestrians and photographers punctuate these photographs made at room in large format, one day in November 2002.
People are watching you by a sidelong glance while they quickly walk such as vectors seeking to defy time. The ways intersect in the tumult of a city that never sleeps. The towers stretch out toward the sky and caress the clouds; those famous skyscrapers that marked, so much the imagination of people and that stand prouder than ever.
New York breathes at the rhythm of the cars that irrigate its arteries. In Black and White NY asserts itself as the Queen of the day. The artist navigates in an endless stream of sounds, stops at a corner to take a picture of a seller of roasted nuts, who is there as a monument in the decor trying to warm as he can while natives walk with a gloved and muffled confidence.
Taxis are posing while the photographer immortalizes the images, their typical yellow that is blindingly obvious even in Black and White. At a crossroads, two photographers are posing to be photographed at their turn; their shadows are showing the time flowing on the ground.
Bridges and buildings overlap while the artist goes toward Manhattan. The Big Apple is a living performance, giant ads in Times Square alongside the glass buildings while determined policemen with an imposing stature regulate traffic. The artist retraces his steps, sees a car of the NYPD passing as he prepares to ascend to the top of the Empire State Building, to catch in a last view-plan every tower of the city... Panting, marveled at the breathtaking view, he activates his 4x5 Inch room and takes one last freehand snapshot. Goodbye New York.